04/18/2025 OlyPD Weekly Update 4 10 to 4 16 25

Crime Map and Updates

Notable Trends

• Officers arrested suspects in the three aggravated assaults reported this week. In one case, the suspect punched the victim over and over and hit him in the head with a bowling pin. In another case, the suspect entered a business and pointed a gun at the victim's head. Two victims fled at their first opportunity. The investigation led to a suspect from a robbery in Lacey. Officers located and arrested him a couple days later for both cases. Multiple firearms were recovered with a search warrant. In the last case, two suspects repeatedly punched the victim over a disagreement about a dog, causing severe injuries.
• One rape reported that is an open investigation. The victim knew the suspect.
• One auto theft reported this week. A juvenile was intoxicated, broke into a vehicle, backed it into another vehicle and then fled on foot. The call was initiated as a hit and run call. When located, the suspect was in possession of stolen property from four nearby stores and drug paraphernalia. The investigating officer recognized him from an earlier incident where he ran from officers into traffic. He was charged with auto theft, DUI, pedestrian interference and possession of stolen property and drug paraphernalia.
• Two robberies reported with one still an open investigation. In the other case, the suspect punched an employee trying to stop a shoplift. The suspect was identified after a State Trooper recognized the description from someone he had helped earlier in the day.
• All three residential burglaries were violations of no contact orders.

Other Items

• Officers responded to 1,002 calls for service this week.
• Multiple events happening around town this weekend that will impact traffic in Olympia. There are demonstrations on the Capitol Campus that will bring increased traffic and pedestrians to the area.
• The Earth Day Market ride is also happening. Bikers from county-wide starting points will ride as groups to Heritage Park Fountain and then ride as a larger group to the Olympia Farmer's Market around 11:15 a.m. There will be brief road closures along 4th and State Avenues to get the group through the intersections. Remember to give vulnerable road users at least three feet if passing them!
• In this week's photo, officers visited dispatchers at TCOMM 911, the public safety answering point for all of Thurston County, to say thank you in honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. In 2024, TCOMM 911 dispatched 202,502 calls for Law Enforcement in Thurston County. Thank you for your service to the community!